After 20 years of chaos, The Dillinger Escape Plan will soon be calling it a day. In an interview with Noisey, guitarist and sole remaining founding member Ben Weinman detailed why, after a tour following the release of Disassociation on October 14, The Dillinger Escape Plan will be no more. “I’ve been so involved in every aspect of Dillinger for 20 years,” Weinman told Noisey, “that I really need to do something else, collaborate with other people and release something that isn’t only tied to Dillinger because that isn’t really healthy.”
The Dillinger Escape Plan first emerged in 1997 with the release of its self-titled EP, and the band would go on to become one of the most influential—and easily the most successful—of the emerging math-core and metalcore genres. Its 1999 debut album, Calculating Infinity, was a savage mix of metal riffs, jazz-inspired drumming, and prog-rock expanse. It would be the lone album to feature vocalist Dimitri Minakakis, whose departure would give the band the creative freedom to collaborate with likeminded weirdos such as Mike Patton, and eventually find Greg Puciato, who has fronted the band since 2001.